Medicine: Dr. Faust in Skirts

When Ponce de Leon sought the fountain of youth, he had to slosh through
Florida's Everglades and cypress swamps. Rumania's Dr. Anna Asian took
an easier course: from modern chemistry's shelf of wonder-working
drugs, she picked a familiar item that, she thought, had shown some
rejuvenating effects. That was ten years ago. Last week Dr. Asian's
purported cure for the ravages of age was exposed as merely the latest
in an arm-long list of quackish remedies. If it does anybody any good,
it is mainly by the power of suggestion.